Back when AI writing tools just spat out garbage paragraphs

I remember trying one of those early AI text generators back in 2019 for a blog post I was working on (about local hiking trails, nothing fancy). The output was so robotic and repetitive, I had to rewrite basically every single sentence. Fast forward to last month when a buddy showed me a newer tool he used for his small business newsletter. I was honestly shocked at how natural the writing sounded, like something a real person would type out over coffee. The big change came when they started training these models on way more diverse conversations and actual human dialogue patterns instead of just encyclopedia articles. It went from unusable to genuinely helpful in what, like three or four years? Has anyone else noticed that shift with these AI writing assistants, or am I just hanging out with the wrong crowd?

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blair6263mo ago

Just set up a few simple filters in your workflow and you'll save yourself tons of editing time. Start by feeding it a couple examples of your own writing style first before asking it to draft anything. I tell people to run the output through Hemingway Editor after the AI spits it out catches all the awkward phrasing and repetition. That combo alone cut my editing time from an hour to maybe 15 minutes for a weekly newsletter.

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holly_green822mo ago

Feeding it 3 examples of MY writing first made the biggest difference for me.

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oliviahenderson3mo ago

Fifteen minutes down from an hour is huge, I'm genuinely happy for you. That kind of time savings makes such a difference in actually getting the work done instead of fighting with text. Do you find Hemingway catches the same stuff every time or does it vary by topic?

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